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Morning round-up: Friday 1 August
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Can a tattoo be legally binding?
An opportunity for law graduates on National Orgasm Day
Of course National Orgasm Day has a legal angle
The 11 harrowing stages of applying for a training contract on deadline day
How has it come to this?
Wouldn’t it be nice to quit the middle class rat race and just hold a ‘golf sale’ sign all day?
Viz stokes debate by reflecting on the desirability of a career as a solicitor
Morning round-up: Thursday 31 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Legal hurdles
Judge told barrister to nip down to Chinese takeaway — for an interpreter
Glitch in outsourcing services blamed for lack of Mandarin speaker in trial at Cardiff Crown Court
Death of the training contract — solicitors’ regulator reforms rules to boost paralegal entry
A key historic plank of the solicitor qualification process is dying -- but the training contract is going not with a bang, but a whimper
Squatted magistrates court which hosted Occupy’s ‘trial of the 1%’ to become a luxury hotel
Two-and-a-half years on from the Occupy movement's foray into the provision of justice, the 1% get their revenge as spate of court sell-offs continues
Morning round-up: Wednesday 30 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Notice board niggles
Crowdfunding latest — now a lawyer wants us to pay for her law firm
The craze of getting the general public to finance a business -- and run the risk of failure -- has taken a giant leap in the legal profession
Law: the fantasy Vs the reality
Life as a solicitor or barrister isn't always what it seems
Morning round-up: Tuesday 29 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Soldiers march past the RCJ during the First World War
Can you help find missing Nottingham Uni law student Tom Nixon?
Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of a missing law student
Research: young barristers are much cleverer than older ones
New figures give weight to the suspicion that the senior bar is full of not-so-bright slackers from privileged backgrounds
The spiritual home of Wednesbury Unreasonableness is for sale
West Midlands cinema at heart of Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corp goes on the market
Morning round-up: Monday 28 July
The morning’s top legal news stories and social media posts.
Legal pic of the day
Judging by these posters spotted in east London yesterday, the concept of “hipster law” — as celebrated by a recent Twitter hashtag frenzy — may actually exist.